Woody Allen Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.

• I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  Quoted in Eric Lax, Woody Allen and His Comedy (1975)

• If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.

  Woody Allen

  Death, Witty, Humorous

• I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Humorous, Heart

  "Behind the Scenes Of The Klingon Art of War". StarTrek Interview, www.startrek.com. May 05, 2014.

• Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Death, Cutting

  "Fictional character: Boris". "Love and Death", www.imdb.com. June 10, 1975.

• I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.

  Woody Allen

  Death, Suicide, Dying

• I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

  Woody Allen

  Dying, Immortality, Achieve

• Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Death, Lying

  Without Feathers "The Early Essays" (1975)

• I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

  Woody Allen

  Long, Mind, Dying

• They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York and that they had fixed the bullet. There was a lot of money bet on the swan to live.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Swans, Ballet

• Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying.

  Woody Allen

  Dying, Life Is Like, Concentration

  "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger". Comedy, Drama, Romance, 2010.

• I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.

  Woody Allen

  Running, Block, Talking

• Dying is like making love, except you don't get naseous afterwards.

  Woody Allen

  Making Love, Dying

• The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.

  Woody Allen

  Mean, Wish, Getting Older

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

• Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

  Woody Allen

  People, Dying, Want

• I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.

  Woody Allen

  Forever, Dying, Want

• I wouldn't mind dying so much if it wasn't that I would be dead at the end of it.

  Woody Allen

  Mind, Dying, Would Be

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